Cloaking is presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.

As per me cloaking is an SEO technique in which the content showed for "search engine spiders" is different from what is presented for users. Many say that this is a "Blackhat SEO technique" but Google says that as long as doorway pages are visible and "crawlable", it will pass the webmaster guidelines.

With the help of cloaking, one can create two sets of pages. One for search engine crawlers another for regular human visitors. This enables retaining the good look and feel of the site for humans, while still being able to show highly optimized pages to the crawlers and thus generate high amounts of traffic from the search engines. Cloaking also prevents humans from seeing what kind of optimization techniques you are using and stealing your optimized pages.

But one interesting thing.. Do you know with cloaking is how to tell whether the arriving visitor is a search engine crawler or a human?

There are many levels of cloaking from black to white-hat.It all boils down to you intentions.Of course, Google allows the white-hat way.Black-hat cloaking is when the content is misleading a query.Not agreed by search engines.White-hat cloaking is used to optimize a landing page or log-in page in the favor of the search engine rules.There are some darker shades of white that the SERPs agree to as well.

Cloaking generally means to present altered version of web page contents from of search engines to search robots and human visitors based on their browser's user agent or IP address. It is black hat techniques where it shows one affectionate of content to search engine bots and different to visitors.

HiCloaking is the address of abiding altered pages to seek engines than to people. If a being requests the page of a accurate URL from the website, the site's accustomed page is returned, but if a seek engine spider makes the aforementioned request, a appropriate page that has been created for the engine is returned, and the accustomed page for the URL is hidden from the engine - it is cloakedThanks

Cloacking is categorized below the Black Hat SEO Techniques. It is a unreliable method used to cheat the search engines to rank well for desired keywords. It is used for the presentation of the different forms of content to search engines and several different presentations to users.